Emberline SMP is a small survival world that only wants around 20 players total. The owner is just tired of giant servers with tons of people or worlds that never even start.

The server is pretty much vanilla. It only has proximity voice chat one player sleep and player head drops. That is it. No crazy plugins or confusing stuff.

You join the discord and submit an application and once there are 20 people the server starts. Those 20 are the whole community so it should feel tighter and less chaotic.

There is a tutorial in the discord that shows you how to install the proximity chat so everyone can actually use it.

If you want a simple survival server with a small group this looks like what they are going for.

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